In the River Delaware

at 11 AM began to heave—¹ 

In the River Delaware

Mod^t. & fair PM emp^d: on heaving in the Cable made fast to the Cheveaux de frize found we draw'd them nearer to us but did not widen the Passage already made at 4 PM veer'd away on the Cable made fast to the Cheveaux de frize & hove to ½ a Cable on the B^t. B^r: found another Cheveaux de frize above the rest on which we put a Cask Buoy & Sunk it with a Pig of Iron  Ballast.